I think when people want to remotely decrypt fde the usual advice is installing dropbear SSH to remotely enter the password. Sorry for not providing links but it should be easy to find.

Firefox Send is open source, even though the public service is no longer offered.

Here are some public instances and instructions for self hosting: https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file

Occasionally some manufacturers use some weird proprietary connection but usually both DVD drives and 3.5" disks use the same SATA connectors. Heck, even in the old IDE/PATA days you could use the same connection on either.

So yeah, the connection is the same and probably will plug and play without any configuration needed

I've heard that immich and other picture-organizing software can will something like this?

https://github.com/hashicorp/envconsul