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3 NVME Acer 2TB drives have the same Hardware UUID?

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The Question: Is it normal for three drives made by the same manufacturer (all having the same capacity 2TB in this case) to have the same Hardware UUID in Linux? _Not the partitions, the hardware._ The Details: * Over the course of a year, I purchased three Acer 2TB NVME Drives from Newegg. I had installed two of them in the same Notebook (Acer Nitro 2022), and while using Windows they worked without error. * I recently installed Fedora 41 on the Acer Nitro 2022, and while in the Anaconda installer, Anaconda threw an error/warning that there were two devices with the same Hardware UUID. I ended up having to remove one to finish the installation. * I was curious since I have another Notebook with one of these Acer 2TB NVME drives, so I ran the following command on both Notebooks to see if the Nitro error was a fluke:
-sh
    ls -la /dev/disk/by-id
For both Notebooks, the same Hardware UUID is reported under the device nvme0n1:
nvme-uuid.df8e86d6-8a47-9916-2e43-8e8b6efdb7cd
Asked by Ryan N. (21 rep)
Dec 16, 2024, 12:29 AM
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