hard-sectored
Adjective
Meaning
hard-sectored (not comparable)
(computing) Of a storage medium: divided up by hard sectoring.
Examples
The 5¼-inch format displaced the 8-inch one for most applications, and the hard-sectored disk format disappeared.
Most soft-sectored and all hard-sectored drives would have also required an extra cut-out for the index hole — a harder modification.