从http://www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx

What is a GUID? GUID (or UUID) is an acronym for 'Globally Unique Identifier' (or 'Universally Unique Identifier'). It is a 128-bit integer number used to identify resources. The term GUID is generally used by developers working with Microsoft technologies, while UUID is used everywhere else. How unique is a GUID? 128-bits is big enough and the generation algorithm is unique enough that if 1,000,000,000 GUIDs per second were generated for 1 year the probability of a duplicate would be only 50%. Or if every human on Earth generated 600,000,000 GUIDs there would only be a 50% probability of a duplicate.

Eric Lippert写了一系列关于guid的非常有趣的文章。

There are on the order 230 personal computers in the world (and of course lots of hand-held devices or non-PC computing devices that have more or less the same levels of computing power, but lets ignore those). Let's assume that we put all those PCs in the world to the task of generating GUIDs; if each one can generate, say, 220 GUIDs per second then after only about 272 seconds -- one hundred and fifty trillion years -- you'll have a very high chance of generating a collision with your specific GUID. And the odds of collision get pretty good after only thirty trillion years.

GUID指南，第一部分 GUID指南，第二部分 GUID指南，第三部分

简单的答案是肯定的。

Raymond Chen写了一篇关于guid和为什么guid的子字符串不能保证唯一的文章。这篇文章深入探讨了guid的生成方式以及它们用来确保唯一性的数据，这应该会花一些篇幅来解释它们为什么会这样:-)

如果你害怕相同的GUID值，那么把它们放在一起。

Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

如果你太多疑，那就放三个。

GUID 100%是唯一的吗?

不能保证，因为有几种方法可以生成一个。然而，您可以尝试计算创建两个完全相同的GUID的几率，您就会明白:一个GUID有128位，因此，有2128个不同的GUID——比已知宇宙中的恒星要多得多。阅读维基百科的文章了解更多细节。

是的，GUID应该总是唯一的。它是基于硬件和时间，加上一些额外的位，以确保它是唯一的。我相信理论上有可能得到两个一模一样的，但在现实场景中极不可能。

以下是Raymond Chen关于Guids的一篇很棒的文章:

https://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/06/27/8659071.aspx ​ ​ ​