Potential problems with the 3 TB HDD on ThinkStation P series?

I'm very much considering a Lenovo ThinkStation P300. I'm planning on getting two hard drives: (1) the 2.5" 256GB SATA Solid State Drive (OPAL) as the first (boot) drive
(2) the 3.5" 3TB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive for storage space I have a question about (2); should I get 2 TB or 3 TB? Obviously, the choice is up to me, based on how much I think I want to store and how much I want to spend. However, after tentatively choosing the 3 TB, I have been given pause after researching on the web a bit. Let me explain... The P300 specs sheet here says that Lenovo's part number for the 3 TB HDD is 4XB0F18668. If I search for part number 4XB0F18668 on the Lenovo website, I find this page. On the picture, it looks like the drive has a Seagate logo on it. So the OEM for the 3 TB HDD for the ThinkStation P300 is probably Seagate. A web image search for "4XB0F18668" suggests -- though not conclusively -- that it is a Seagate Barracuda. Unfortunately, a report from Backblaze suggests that 3 TB Seagate Barracuda drives have very high failure rates, compared to other drive sizes. Reviews here seem to corroborate that. Do you have any experience with 3 TB drives being particulary unreliabe? Do you think that I should go with 2 TB? Is there any way I can know if the 3 TB HDD option for the ThinkStation P300 is actually Seagate Barracuda? Or might the 3 TB HDD on the P300 be by an OEM other than Seagate? Thanks for your time.

The way commodities (such as HDDs) are handled is we generally qualify several different drives for each "drive type" in order to maintain continuity of supply. So just because you saw a picture of a Seagate drive online doesn't necessarily mean that you will get a Seagate drive when ordering your system.
My advice, buy the capacity you need. Any drive that's officially qualified goes through extensive testing to make sure it meets required quality levels, so there is a level of confidence there that if we're selling it, we're going to back it and warrant it if needed.
Also keep in mind that often retail drives aren't the same as what we're actually shipping. Quite often, we ship drives with unique Lenovo firmware, which helps the drive meet our quality requirements.

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