hard disk activity light flashes at regular intervals

Recently I noticed my DELL computer disk activity light is flashing on
and off at a regular 2 second rate and the drive read noise is
accompanying it. Do I have a software or hardware problem? I have
scanned for viruses, adware, defragged, etc. using Norton Systemworks.
It is sill "beating". Any ideas?

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