I Aperture to Lightroom file import

I am relocating the masters from aperture and importing the files into Lightroom. While I'm doing this, I am converting the NEF files to DNG's.
The questions are, firstly, I thought the DNG's were to replace the NEF files at import?
and second, if this is not the case, does that mean that I then have to delete the NEF files as I dont want to use double the disk space"

Yes, the original NEFs will stay untouched, when using the "Copy as DNG" option.
The most frequent use case might be to copy them off a camera storage card, and LR anyhow does not write or delete from your camera card.
If you select the option in the import dialog to "Make a 2nd copy" (e.g. to another location, to have 2 versions before reshooting on the camera card), this 2nd copy will also remain a NEF.
My choice for the last 3 years has been to not embed the NEF inside the DNG, but keep these 2nd copies instead, just in case.
Because if you really want to access the NEF out of the DNG, you have another software to run to de-embed it ... a lot of hassle I wanted to avoid. After de-embedding they are anyhow as separate and unknown to LR as my first safety backup version. I do not know how much storage space is saved inside the DNG. For storage sizes: pure DNG < DNG with NEF embedded < pure DNG + NEF extra.
And lately I have changed my mind again: now I stopped DNG-conversion from then on. Why?
I like saving to xmp, as a belt-and-braces approach for loosing data, plus for exchange with other software capable of reading xmp.
While I first appreciated not to have sidecar files to bother with, I found the repeated update of a complete DNG-file led to some corruption, especially if the DNG was on a NAS rather than internal drive. Not many, roughly 7-10 per 10'000 images, but still. I had to go back to the 2nd-copy and get the NEF from there, converted it again to DNG, to rectify.
NEF+xmp will only update the small xmp-Part. I no longer use my OS to look at image folders, and I move images from within LR, so I am no longer explicitely bothered by the sidecar-clutter.
I lost the ability to update the jpg-preview inside the DNG-file, so it could be read e.g. from Irfanview. But that was a heavy process on LR anyhow, so I did not do it consistenly and it was arbitrary if the contained preview showed my latest LR development results or not.
So in short I feel safer with my untouched NEF and maximum xmp to loose. Plus like the faster update of fewer data. My trust level with Adobe / Nikon has also shifted...
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