ihookem,
At the beginning to see if RAW will benefit what you do, and I believe it will if you are doing post processing, I would leave it at full resolution. I shoot a RAW file with a JPEG copy in camera and I will look at the photo on the computer before I transfer them to make sure it is what I want. That way you won't fill up a hard drive so fast. RAW does take more memory since it is uncompressed where JPEGs are compressed files. Again, to me, they are worth it.
