In the applications folder on the Mac go to the Utilities folder and in that folder double click the "Disk Utility" program.
Once the Disk Utility program launches, you should see on the left column under "External" you should see your new SSD. Click on that new SSD and click the "erase" button and it will give you an option to reformat the disk in HFS+.
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