I have a 2 year & 8 month old early 2013 model Dell Inspiron 3421 14" laptop. The hard disk has recently crashed, it originally came with Samsung/Seagate 500Gb 5400 RPM hard disk.

Now I plan to replace it with Western Digital Scorpio Black 500Gb 7200 RPM.

I just want to confirm if the 7200 RPM hard disk will work fine in the laptop or not? Also how can I get the drivers that originally came pre-installed with the laptop?

Thanks in advance!!

it will work just fine. but please do yourself a favor and upgrade to SSD instead.

SSD is pretty expensive bro & also low capacity. Maybe I get one with new laptop in future but for now happy with a slightly fast HDD

no problem go ahead bro

Thanks a lot for confirming!!

I have replace quite a few hdd on laptops with scorpio black 500gb. It is a little than most std 5400 rpm that come with many laptops. Mind you that you will get slightly less batt runtime.

Got mine replaced over the weekend. Got WD Scorpio Black 500GB, WD5000LPLX model. This model is better than the one I had previously looked at, this has 32MB cache & 6Gb/s data transfer rate. The other scorpio black had 16MB cache & 3Gb/s data transfer rate.

Battery is not a issue, I use the laptop mostly as desktop at home so battery is removed.

yes. its worth. for value of money and performance and cheaper than ssd (bigger storage) yes... black is good enuf..
you can get from their website or you can download driver magician and get the compatible driver from internet.