Use a WD Red Plus 6TB NAS HDD drive as an external drive with Mac

Hi.

I just bought a WD Red Plus 6TB NAS drive. My intention is to use it as a normal storage disk with my MacBook Pro using an adapter to USB. I chose a NAS drive as they are supposed to have a superior build to "normal" drives. They included sensors to sense shaking, in order to avoid damage to the writing heads. I am not interested in using it as a NAS drive, just as a storage drive.

I have other 3.5" disk from Samsung which I could format with Macs Extended Journal File Format while connected to my Mac.

When I connected the drive to my Mac, it won't recognize it, neither in Disk Utility nor using the diskutil list command in terminal.

I connected the disk to a Windows PC. There, in the disk manager, the disk was shown. The disk space was not allocated, I allocated it and now it shows as an NTFS drive.

My Mac, however will still not recognize the drive.

Has anybody an idea how I could make my Mac recognize the disk, so I can change the file format to

Extended Journal File Format?

Any other comments are appreciated.

Thanks beforehand

Max