Try doing a pram reset. This can be done by holding the keys command + option + P + r right after you press the power button to turn on the mac.
When you hear the chime 3 times you can release all held down keys immediately and try installing Mac os again. If you have selected the drive name to erase to create a new partition usually the Install will show the new partition. Restart the Mac and see if that gets it to show up.
Hmm that is strange. To make sure when showing all disks in disk utility on the view button for the sidebar you selected show all devices right?
Then usually you'd see a device under internal called Apple SSD which would sometimes contain container disk1.
If you do see apple SSD you can select that erase as Mac os extended format with partition scheme as guid partition map.
If it does not show up as a disk any more I'm baffled as to how a MacBook kills a known good SSD that way.
Here is an image for example from my MacBook Pro Retina 15" Mid-2014.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbyvn4qcmudt4w...
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Which SSD did you use for ugrading ?
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Make sure you select show all drives / partitions on the top left in disk utility window and erase also the APFS container.
Personally I always erase the drives with Mac OS Journaled because that is what always works for me.
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Who's SSD did you use? Make and Model.
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@arbaman both the original 256gb and owc 1tb
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@benjamen50 I did that but only shows disk0, the macOS system install partition.
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