Earlier this year, Seagate announced its Surveillance HDD range - hard drives designed for storing surveillance video, and including data recovery services.

The company has now announced that the Seagate Rescue service is available in Australia.

The service provides data recovery following physical damage, corruption or accidental deletion in return for an optional upfront payment. No indication was given of the cost, other than that it is "a fraction of the cost of data recovery services purchased after the event."

Seagate Rescue is being offered in Australia in partnership with Q Security Systems and Rhino Co Technology.

"We are looking forward to working with Seagate and being able to offer surveillance and Rescue services for the DVR (digital video recorder) and NVR (network video recorder) storage applications," said Q Security Systems national product manager Stanley El Komala.

"Seagate Rescue services will complement our security system portfolio, enabling us to deliver both data protection and security and to provide greater support for our customers."

Rhino Co Technology sales engineer Nathan Walters said "The Seagate Rescue services are essential for any video surveillance system. Not only is it a reliable storage solution, but it also has a guaranteed disaster recovery plan that will offer our customers the assurance they can rely on for the retrieval of their most crucial video footage.

"With more than 30 years in the electronic security industry behind us, we strive to support our valued customers with the best products. We believe that with Seagate's partnership and integration of its surveillance and Rescue services, we have come a step closer to achieving our goal."

The 1TB to 4TB Surveillance HDD drives are now on sale in Australia, with the 5TB and 6TB variants "soon to be released," according to Seagate.