UUID – Every disk drive has a UUID, a Universal Unique Identifier, which is a 128-bit hexadecimal number, generated buy a standard method, and used to identify objects or entities on the Internet. UUIDs should stay unique until at least 2030 after which they may lose their uniqueness. UUIDs are standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) as part of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).
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