Older Plextor Writer

[Musicman51]

Dale {or anyone who might know} back on March 7, 2002, order #8971, i purchased a plextor 24X speed writer from mtu. It was the white faced one. My puter went out shortly after i purchased this writer, so for all practicle purposes it's still new. Anyways i put the puter up over the garage and forgot about it. Recently during spring cleaning i ran across this old puter with the new plextor internal in it. Without taking it apart. Were those old writers IDE or SATA? will they still work with any of the last few microstudio versions? Is it worth keeping or just toss it? Incidently, it says i paid $199 for that internal back then, today mtu has certified internals for 80 bucks...sign of the times i guess.