Mass Conversion to DNG??

Ok, I have about 2000 NEFs on my external drive that are in different states of organization. I'm about to get my new laptop, and the urge to do a real organization of files is getting stronger. I figure it'll be easier with a few thousand images than a few tens of thousands of images.
How should I proceed? I have about half the images keyworded. None are flagged or tagged in any way - I usually initially X flag the bad ones, and then immediately delete after import. Any help would be appreciated as this will be the first "batch" process I've done since buying LR.
The other questions I have are:
1>Is there any valid reason to do this (or not)? Others have suggested it is a good idea, but I'm just starting to learn about the DNG format, and still don't know that much...
2>What should I do with the original NEFs?

Vince
Don't feel you need to jump all at once - quite the contrary. Convert a few images to DNG as tests, work them through all the things you'd ever need to do, view them in all the programs you ever use, and check the metadata and the appearance in all those environments. Then you can answer the question for yourself.
(When I decided to move over to DNG, it was after 2 weeks of putting all new shots through a DNG workflow. It wouldn't have been too much work to redo.)
I'd archive the NEFs. You may never need them again, but space is cheap and you never know when you might want to test a program that won't read DNGs.
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