Thunderbolt SSD only shows in System Information

I bought an external Elgato Thunderbolt SSD (128GB). After a few months, I decided to turn FileVault on. I shouldn't have done this because it broke my SSD.
I was origionally able to fix it by using Terminal to turn off the ecryption and zero the drive. However, it then broke again and now it only show's up in System Information listed as a Thunderbolt adaption.
It does not appear in Finder or the Disk Utility, it does not show up in Terminal as "core storage", nor does "diskutil list" find it so I can erase is.
Is there any way at all to fix this SSD?
Thank you, Steven.

Try connecting it to another mac or even a Windows PC, if you can find a PC with Thunderbolt port, and see if it shows on that other computer. If it doesn't then the drive itself has failed. This is not uncommon for SSDs. Or it could be the enclosures electronics that have failed. Since this must be a fairly new drive, being TB and a SSD, it might still be within the warranty period. Contact the manufacturer to see if you can get it replaced under the warranty.

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