Windows 10: Does Virtual Hard Disks increase the Windows perfomance?

I heard about a lot of videos on YouTube saying thatVirtual Hard Disks increase the performance of Windows. I opened this discussion because, in my opinion, Virtual Hard Disks are used only in Virtual Machines which used for testing Beta programs or Operating Systems. So, I believe thatunnecessary usage of Virtual Hard Disks reduces the performance of Windows instead of improving its storage capabilities.


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Compacting virtual hard disks

We must have totally different working methods

Let's see what I told to be my workflow, and check how that works in reality. Example W10 x64 VM is one I have used for ESDtoISO and UUPtoISO testing, a clean installed build 15048 with no additional software installed, upgraded several times to builds 15055, 15058, 15060 and 15061, always restored back to clean 15048. This has of course caused the VHD size to grow to multiple times what really is needed.

After the above, checking file sizes. Macrium image was made when the original 64 GB dynamically expanding VHD was 34.5 GB:




Macrium image size just under 5 GB:

After restoring Macrium image to a new dynamically expanding VHD, file size is 9.3 GB. Over two thirds smaller than original one:




The same as seen by File Explorer, yellow highlight is the original VHD, start situation, and green highlight the new VHD where Macrium image from old VHD was restored. Old VHD can now be deleted, net storage save savings over 25 GB in this example case:




(Notice that VHD has already grown over 0.5 GB since the previous screenshot a few minutes earlier. This is because in previous screenshot VM was not started yet after restoring the image.)
This of course is all logical, happens every time.

 

Increase RAM in Windows 10 with hard disk

I'm operating on a large amount of data with python pandas and it is depended on RAM only. My computer only has 8GB of RAM but I have a 1TB SSD.

Is there a way with windows 10 to increase my RAM with my hard disk? I read about virtual memory and a the paging file. This is already enabled but doesn't seem to have any effect on what the computer considers RAM.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

increasing virtual memory/Windows not activated

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