HDD noise?

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Sample files of the noise.
http://wikisend.com/download/373754/1.ogg
http://wikisend.com/download/562886/2.ogg

My laptop can be completely idle with no applications open and then all of a sudden the HDD will start making a noise but the HDD activity led does not come one. The noise goes on for about 30 seconds and then dissapears, about a minute later the same noise will appear again but this time for a shorter duration and by the time the screen blanks the noise no longer appears. The noise does not appear if I'm booted into a plain text console/terminal, only when loading X/Ob.

atop & collectl report no disk activity. The drive is also not load cycling as laptop-mode-tools are installed and the counter for load cycling does not increase.

So can anyone tell me what the cause of this noise is?
 
Ok, looks like the disk is running offline data collection.
 
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