Difference between 16mb and 32mb

[TekRok]

I am running a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288 Hard drive at the moment. I had another one which was the same but i somehow ended up breaking the sata connection on it which makes it useless now. Well even before that happened it was getting formatting errors, coruptions and etc.

I am recieving this HDD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136131&Tpk=wd7500aaks
This one is 16MB cache. What kinf of difference does 16 additional MBs of Cache really make? What kind of difference will i notice when i switch to this one or run the above Seagate with WD?

I am not really going for benchmarks here, everything is at stock for me. That would be my last Seagate, going back to WD.

 

[man00]

I have used both 16/32mb and for my use I didn't notice any difference.

 

[DonDon]

The only benchmark that you may see a difference in is the burst speed on HD Tune may be higher due to the higher cache amount. Other than that, 16 MB seems to have been the point of diminishing returns for magnetic hard drive cache.

Don