Is a GUID unique 100% of the time?

Question

Is a GUID unique 100% of the time?

Will it stay unique over multiple threads?

Answer 1

As a side note, I was playing around with Volume GUIDs in Windows XP. This is a very obscure partition layout with three disks and fourteen volumes.

\\?\Volume{23005604-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (F:)
\\?\Volume{23005605-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (G:)
\\?\Volume{23005606-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (H:)
\\?\Volume{23005607-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (J:)
\\?\Volume{23005608-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (D:)
\\?\Volume{23005609-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (P:)
\\?\Volume{2300560b-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (K:)
\\?\Volume{2300560c-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (L:)
\\?\Volume{2300560d-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (M:)
\\?\Volume{2300560e-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (N:)
\\?\Volume{2300560f-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (O:)
\\?\Volume{23005610-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (E:)
\\?\Volume{23005611-eb1b-11de-85ba-806d6172696f}\ (R:)
                                     | | | | |
                                     | | | | +-- 6f = o
                                     | | | +---- 69 = i
                                     | | +------ 72 = r
                                     | +-------- 61 = a
                                     +---------- 6d = m

It's not that the GUIDs are very similar but the fact that all GUIDs have the string "mario" in them. Is that a coincidence or is there an explanation behind this?

Now, when googling for part 4 in the GUID I found approx 125.000 hits with volume GUIDs.

Conclusion: When it comes to Volume GUIDs they aren't as unique as other GUIDs.