Quote Originally Posted by Tannin View Post
Why would you want to give up the speed, convenience, and safety of having the JPGs as well as the raws? There are many good reasons to shoot raw + JPG, but prime among them are the much better classification/review options, and of course the security of having two copies of every picture. Even if some disaster happens, you always have at least one.
I’m far from an expert. Still working it all out.

However. Must admit. This viewer using Raw is faster than using windows photo viewer with JPGs.

And coming from IT. Two files sitting in the same place won’t offer much protection at all - other than accidental deletion. But you can easily recover those. Best backup strategies are often 3 tier. Primary, secondary on another HDD for example and backed up offsite (cloud as an example)