HDD LED blinks every 2 seconds

I just noticed that my HDD led blinks every 2 seconds. I can't hear any disc activity and I can't see it in iotop.
udisks --inhibit-all-polling
Inhibiting polling on all devices. Press Ctrl+C to exit.
doesn't help. Any ideas?

After 30 seconds:
415 be/4 root 0.00 B 24.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % syslog-ng
10 seconds later:
26 be/7 root 0.00 B 4.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [khugepaged]
after one minute:
259 be/3 root 0.00 B 68.00 K 0.00 % 0.18 % [jbd2/sda10-8]
After some time:
3652 be/4 mk 0.00 B 84.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % firefox
1102 be/4 mk 0.00 B 16.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % kdeinit4: plas~ktop [kdeinit]
That's all for now.

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