Glad I got the update, I can now think about an SSD now
Did an Xbench before and after the update, and as I thought, there's no noticeable speed increase with my HDD... but that was expected.
Before upgrade:
Disk Test 50.12
Sequential 95.85
Uncached Write 109.93 67.49 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 106.72 60.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.29 19.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 125.80 63.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 33.94
Uncached Write 12.42 1.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 71.20 22.79 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 67.01 0.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 119.13 22.11 MB/sec [256K blocks]
After upgrade:
Results 47.36
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.7 (9J3050)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,3
Drive Type Hitachi HTS545032B9SA02
Disk Test 47.36
Sequential 93.80
Uncached Write 105.70 64.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 97.43 55.12 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 68.43 20.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 120.41 60.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 31.67
Uncached Write 11.36 1.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 69.22 22.16 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 66.95 0.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 112.19 20.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]