Question for the masses in Photography

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I just did a poll on my personal profile asking how people save their images.

Raw + Edited JPG received the highest votes

I am wondering what the difference between a Raw and a DNG is and why you would keep the Raw over a DNG.  My photography instructer had us convert all our raw images to DNG then delete the Raw.  Did she teach us the wrong way of going about saving our images?

Please help me figure out what the best ways to save images are.  Thank you
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RAW format is a digital negative and personally I keep all my RAW files regardless of how I save them after editing. Why delete them unless the image is junk? Storage is cheap and maybe one day you will want to re-edit the image. If they are deleted you can't do that. I've not heard of a DNG file.