Thunderbolt 4 nvme drive issue on M1 Studio w/ Ventura 13.4

I believe apple is responsible for this problem.

I've used Acasis 40GB Thunderbolt 3/4 enclosure for my Mac Mini. I'm super happy with the results.

Interesting. I had the same issue on my Mac Studio. I was using a WD NVME drive in a TB enclosure (Acacis). All was fine until one day stopped working. I moved it to my other Mac (Intel) and worked fine. I then reformatted the drive and used another brand of enclosure (Trebleet) and it started to work on the Studio. Then I put the drive back into the original Acacis enclosure and tested again and it was working once again. Have not been able to figure out the issue. I'm using Monterey.

Not sure this applies, but since we are talking about drives that won't mount:

We occasionally see drives fail when they were not ERASEd when new, but the maker's Utilities, including Paragon or Tuxiera NTFS Drivers were installed. All proceeds fine until that Driver is not included in the MacOS image being used, then the drive 'mysteriously' stops working.

A drive set up by the maker as Windows New Technology File System (NTFS) can have MacOS Volumes created on it, either MacOS extended or APFS, when those Utilities are present. But when the Utilities are not there (a different Mac, a different MacOS, or something else) the drive won't mount. But It will show up in Disk Utility.

<< I could not see it in disk utility at all on the Studio. >>

In disk Utility, a drive that will not reveal its make & model, and a reasonable non-zero size/capacity, is broken.

That drive can not be used, repaired, or initialized. If its cabling and power are intact, it has died.

then this is the part that applies:

"If its cabling and power are intact,..."

 menu > about this Mac > (system report) > --whatever connection--..

verify that the drive is seen as the drive category you expect, and that it has enough power and can supply its make&model

If I missed it sorry. Have you tried a different cable? I had a similar issue but as far as I can determine it was the cable would not set properly in the port and the same cable world fine in my MacBook Pro M1 and OWC dock.

I've never heard of that Konyead brand before. I'm always leery of unknown brands especially on Amazon. I like to stick with well known established brands especially for anything important.

I do notice the Konyead enclosure mentions it is a dual protocol enclosure and switches automatically as needed between Thunderbolt & USB protocols. I'm guessing it is this auto-switching which may be causing problems for the OP even if it is showing up as Thunderbolt 3. It would be a point of concern for me since it is impossible for the user to choose the protocol desired. Maybe this explains why the dock/hub allows it to work.

Did you ever find an answer for this? I'm having something similar happening.

I just bought my first NVME with a USB enclosure for my M1 studio, and the NVME fried in 3 days. Computer store said the drive was totally dead. Swapped it and the shell out for a different brand drive and shell. The current one is still working after a week, but the first night I used it, I cam back to find it had unmounted mid-data transfer. So now I'm pretty hesitant to use it as my main working drive. (of course I have backups)

I had found some threads talking about USB 3 enclosures for NVME and Mac studios, so I thought that was the issue. Until I found this! I haven't had any issues with my 2.5" SSD's yet, but I also found a thread about the M1 messing up two of those in a single week!