My first distro was OpenSUSE (or SuSE Linux back then) sometime around 2002. I picked it up out of curiosity in a book shop. They were selling the handbook, bundled with a DVD with the actual OS. It looked something like this. And thus started decades of distro hopping.
MisterDigital
joined 1 year ago
I'm 38 and still distro hop. At what age are you supposed to stop?
Have you tried it with a different enclosure or directly connected to your PC? My last two "faulty" HDDs actually just had a faulty controller in the enclosure. Drives were fine.
I've tested a couple solutions and settled on Immich. Does everything I need and the pace at which they add new features and improve it overall is insane.
Note for the folks using Wayland, there's also ydotool that doesn't require X11: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool