5D Mark II Workflow and HD space questions

I've been converting footage from my Canon 5D Mark II into ProRes 422 HQ for editing purposes, like I see people here doing. I am wondering what people are doing in regards to space. My Raid is being eaten up by all the conversions and I am wondering what people are doing to ease this problem.
What is the advantage of going HQ and not just ProRes 422?
Are you erasing original footage after conversion?
Any help appreciated.
Message was edited by: Chulo01

ProRes HQ is overkill. That one is meant for 2K images and up. Regular ProRes is fine for 1080 on down.
And keep the originals...those are your source tapes. Back them up on a separate drive.
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