Disk Thrashing Brand New Macbook Pro

Hello.
I got my macbook pro 17 inch last Wednesday and everything seemed fine. Today I have noticed that while it is idle there is a distinct noise of something accessing the harddisk. This was not audible before as I checked after I got it and would have noticed it.
All I have done so far is a restore of my old macbook pro from time machine backup and everything seemed fine until now.
Is this a known problem? How do I find out what is accessing the harddisk?

+All I have done so far is a restore of my old macbook pro from time machine backup and everything seemed fine until now.+
Did you by any chance restore a complete backup from an OLDER MBP to a NEWER platform? I.e. a full time-machine type restore?
If you did that could be a source of your issues - it's not usually a good idea to restore to a previous platform. Drivers differences and all kind of things can cause you random problems.
I know for example that my hard drive taken straight from my 2009 MBP boots and appears to work in my 2010MBP - I did this just out of curiosity. It wouldn't have been wise to continue to use it however given the platform differences.

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