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As for DNG and deleting the NEF, I can only liken that to making prints then burning the negatives. Fine if you only need the prints but madness if you ever want or need to revisit the processing.
I lost all my negatives from my early photography which I had carefully stored, I still have some prints but only poor small ones, if I still had the negatives I would now be in a position to re-photograph them and bring them into the digital age.
You can never know what new technology is around the corner, nor what will happen with proprietary formats. Who knows, Corel, Google or Facebook may buy Photoshop next, then where would we be??? Stuffed. OK that may never happen but it could, or something equally unthinkable. At least with the original NEF format you can always go back to square one.
After loading the image files into Lightroom I fairly ruthlessly 'X' any image which is oof, has issues or is repetitive, then I delete them from the drive. The cost of large hard drives is very low nowadays, there is no need to delete good image files simply to save space.
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Robert.