Formatting a SSD drive w/Monterey

I went to the SanDisk site (Thanks lllaass!) and looked at the comments and suggestions there (actually decided to return the drive). I had tried to format it on my old MacPro running Big Sur yesterday, but had used HFS+. Got further than having to force quit out of Disk Utility and Time Machine on the new computer. Time Machine just quit without freezing, progress. I then decided to format the drive on my old machine as an APFS drive. Success! Time machine appears to be creating a backup as I type. Thanks for the help! Cheers, Dana

SanDisk 4TB drive. I can access it in Finder, but despite now reformatting the drive on my Mac running Big Sur, Time Machine just freezes or says there is a problem. No hub, it connects directly to the Mac without any adapters.

I spoke too soon! It made a Time Machine backup that was not visible. It was really odd. It took up space on the drive, but it was not visible by that or my other Macs. I give up. I took the drive back today. Hopefully SanDisk can figure this out sometime.