I’m operating macOS Monterey 12.6 (context)

I’ve a 500gb Sandisk SSD from 2019. I crammed it to 75% with photographs from my telephone and my cameras through the years. I used lightroom to edit mentioned photographs.

Lately, I used to be transferring and renaming some folders and such on the drive straight. I additionally added new photographs.

Then, impulsively, the stuff within the drive was gradual to load. I believed this was a storage concern so I cleared photographs to return again to ~75%. Additionally, lightroom was not capable of finding the photographs. Ops, Lightroom needs you to maneuver and rename folders of their software program. Okay, I reimported every part into lightroom and I’ll rename and transfer some stuff there.

Nevertheless, a problem with the drive developed. Lengthy load occasions for folders to load occurred, typically there could be no loading and the graphical paths have been clean; additional, I used to be stopped for ejecting the drive as a result of “an utility is utilizing the drive” and quitting all software program wouldn’t remedy the difficulty. Different occasions, the drive would simply cease being accessible mid use. Much more, the drive was additionally not being detected, it will take a pair reboots, disconnects, and reconnects to get the disk detected.

I delay storing the info elsewhere as a result of I believed I knew how you can get the drive acknowledged: reboot the pc with the drive plugged in and I’m good. It labored as soon as however at this time, it ceased to be acknowledged. I’ve tried every of my 4 USB-C drives to no avail.

System report says there’s a sandisk SSD plugged in,

and diskutil additionally finds it (typically however not at all times)

What’s going on? What can I do? :(((((((
Thanks forward of time.