Satellite L20-183 - HARD drive upgrade

Hello!

I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite L20-183. I would like to change the hard drive TOSHIBA MK6032GSX to a larger and more rapid as: WD 320 GB 7200 RPM 16 Mb SATA2 Notebook WD3200BEKT.
It will be compatible or should I buy SATA 1 HDD 5400 RPM?

Hello

Satellite L20 works with disk HARD SATA 1 and maximum capacity, with which it was delivered was 100 GB but I think 320 should not be problematic.
RPM MAX was 5400 then I think you should buy the HARD disk with the same number of TURNS.

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