Is it save to use my 23GB hierarchical directory as a vault?

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I am new to Obsidian and have questions regarding the setup:

I am a researcher at university and want to use it as a second brain for my research. I already have a ~23 GB directory with a deep subfolders hierarchy, which contains my article collection - mostly PDF articles and a few md/txt documents. I would like to use this directory as a vault. Can I just say do this or could there be issues? I was warned at the website of Obsidian that symbolic links inside the vault (and I have some symbolic links) could lead to issues, even data loss. What would I consider?

The reason for this approach is, that I want to have my markdown/txt files (that would explain/summerize those papers) in the same folders as the respective papers.

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My whole OneDrive folder is my Obsidian Vault. No issues so far.
Same reason as you, to keep al related files together.

Almost 60GB ( Mainly from my pictures folder )

Backing up your files is always recommended - for anything.
In cause of an issue I can recover files with OneDrive

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Any experience with symbolic links?

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No experience with symbolic links tho, no

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