I have a few 1 TB SSDs lying around and I'm trying to get the first one into unRAID for a cache drive after a 256 GB drive failed on me. My issue is that no matter what I do, I can't get them formatted or mounted. Any attempts to format through the GUI give me "Unmountable: wrong or no file system". Digging deep, I can't even format the drives at the command line. If I wipe the drive, it seems to wipe them OK, but no tools are able to partition or format them. Nothing errors out, but nothing works, either. If I use parted to "mklabel gpt", I get nothing. It's like the system ignores it. If I use something like gdisk to create a partition, it doesn't error out, but it doesn't write the partition, either.

Diagnostics file attached. Any help would be amazingly appreciated.

henry-diagnostics-20251130-1819.zip

wipefs -a /dev/sdc #No error here

parted /dev/sdc mklabel gpt #No error here

parted -a optimal /dev/sdX mkpart primary btrfs 0% 100% # Errors with Error: /dev/sdc: unrecognised disk label

So the "mklabel" command never actually created the label.

The above issue was caused by a failing SATA port. No outward errors, but popping it to another SATA port took care of the issue.