Certified IT asset disposal · Adelaide & surrounds
Your old computers still hold everything.
Client files. Patient records. Staff tax details. Deleting a folder does not remove any of it. ByteCycle collects retired business IT, destroys the data to a certified standard, and hands you a certificate for every single device.
Data sanitisation record
Issued per device. Retained for audit for a minimum of 7 years.
Why proper ITAD matters
Retired hardware is the easiest way to leak your business.
Most small businesses replace their computers every three to five years. Almost nobody has a proper process for what happens next. Three things go wrong, and all three are avoidable.
The data is still on the drive
Emptying the recycle bin, formatting the disk or reinstalling Windows leaves the files exactly where they were. Anyone with a $40 recovery tool and ten minutes can pull client files, patient notes and payroll records straight off a machine you thought was clean. On SSDs, overwriting does not reliably work at all, which is why we use the manufacturer's own secure erase commands.
You are not allowed to bin it
E-waste has been banned from landfill in South Australia since September 2013. That means every computer, monitor, printer and cable your business retires is a compliance obligation, not rubbish. Putting it in the skip is an offence, and it is the kind of thing that surfaces later.
Nobody can prove what happened
The usual path is a staff member's mate with a ute, or a bloke who "takes old computers". No serial numbers recorded. No chain of custody. No record of what was wiped or where the gear went. If a drive from your office turns up on a marketplace listing with your client files on it, you have no evidence of anything and no defence to offer.
The bit that costs money
Under the Privacy Act, disposing of personal information badly is a notifiable data breach.
Australian Privacy Principle 11 requires an organisation to take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify personal information it no longer needs. Handing a loaded laptop to an unvetted third party is not a reasonable step. Serious or repeated breaches carry penalties up to $50 million, and for a law firm or a medical practice the reputational damage lands well before any fine does.
How it works
Six steps, and you only have to be involved in the first one.
We handle the rest. You get certificates, a manifest of every unit, and the knowledge that nothing walked out the door.
Collect
You tell us what you have and we come to you. Free pickup anywhere across greater Adelaide on ten units or more, from the Hills out to the coast and up through the wine country.
Inventory
Every device is logged by serial number and tagged on arrival. That list becomes your manifest and it is what makes the rest of the process auditable.
Wipe
Certified data destruction using BitRaser Drive Eraser. Hard drives are overwritten and verified. SSDs get ATA Secure Erase or NVMe sanitize. Dead or high-sensitivity drives get physically shredded.
Certify
A Certificate of Destruction is issued for each device. It records the serial number, the method, the tool and version, the result, and is signed by the operator and an independent witness.
Refurbish
What is still worth using gets tested, cleaned, repaired, upgraded and given a licensed operating system. Anything not worth saving gets pulled for parts or recycled properly.
Rehome
Refurbished machines are sold cheaply to local families, students and community organisations. Your old fleet ends up doing schoolwork in a house down the road instead of leaching into soil.
Our mission
Businesses are throwing away perfectly good computers. Families nearby cannot afford one. We think the gap between those two facts is the whole business.
For your business
A legal, documented, zero-hassle way to retire IT. Certificates you can produce to a regulator, an auditor or a client without scrambling. No more cupboard full of dead laptops and no more wondering where the last lot went.
For a local family
A working laptop for a few hundred dollars instead of two thousand. Digital inclusion is not an abstract policy problem. It is a kid who cannot do their homework because the only device in the house is a phone.
For the ground
E-waste carries lead, mercury and cadmium. Every device we divert is one less of those leaching into soil and groundwater. Refurbishing beats recycling, because the greenest computer is the one already built.
Who we are
ByteCycle is run by two mates from Adelaide, one based up north and one in the Hills. Joe handles the relationships and the paperwork, Josh handles the technology and the process. We are a registered South Australian company, fully insured, and we do this properly or we do not do it at all. No cutting corners on the wipe, ever, because a certificate is only worth something if the person signing it actually did the work.
We are a young business. That means you get the founders on the phone, a fair price, and the kind of care you do not get from a national contractor who subcontracts the job three layers down.
Who we work with
If you have computers with data on them, we can help.
The usual candidates are businesses running a fleet on a three to five year refresh cycle, or anyone with records they are legally obliged to protect.
Pricing
Straight numbers, including the certificate.
Every price below covers the certified wipe, the chain of custody record and a Certificate of Destruction for each device. Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Small job callout, includes the first 5 units | $85 |
| Laptop, certified wipe and certificate | $30 / unit |
| Desktop, certified wipe and certificate | $34 / unit |
| Server or rack unit, wipe, drive removal and certificate | $80 / unit |
| NAS, RAID array or server with many drives | $120 / unit |
| Network gear, switch or router | $20 / unit |
| Monitor, recycled responsibly, no data | $12 / unit |
| Printer or multifunction, toner handled safely | $25 / unit |
| Physical shredding, per drive removed and destroyed | +$15 |
| Collection, 10 units or more in our service area | Free |
| 50 units or more on one job | −10% |
A clinic retiring four laptops and a desktop pays $85 plus 4 × $30 plus $34, so $239 all up, with five certificates. Cheaper than a fine, and the ban is on your side.
Buy refurbished
Ex-business machines, priced for real budgets.
These are corporate laptops and desktops, wiped to a certified standard, tested, and reissued with a licensed copy of Windows. Business-grade hardware built to last five years, not a cheap consumer machine built to last eighteen months.
| Machine | Spec | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Laptop, entry | Intel i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, Windows 11, 3 month warranty | $249 |
| Laptop, standard | Dell Latitude or HP EliteBook, i5 8th gen, 8 GB, 256 GB SSD, 6 month warranty | $329 |
| Laptop, premium | i5 10th gen or better, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, 12 month warranty | $449 |
| Desktop | Dell OptiPlex small form factor, i5, 8 GB, 256 GB SSD, Wi-Fi, 6 month warranty | $249 |
| Monitor 22 inch | Tested, no dead pixels | $49 |
| Monitor 24 inch | Tested, no dead pixels | $79 |
| Family starter bundle | Desktop, 22 inch monitor, keyboard, mouse, set up and 30 days of phone support | $299 |
| Community organisation bulk | Five units or more, 15% off list | −15% |
Referred through a community organisation, school or clinic? Ask us about the low-income subsidy, it takes $50 off any machine. Stock changes weekly, so get in touch and tell us what you need it for.
The standards we work to
You can check every claim on this page.
Get started
Tell us what you have sitting in the cupboard.
A rough count is fine. We will come back with what it costs, when we can collect, and what certificates you get. No obligation and no hard sell.