Why is my disk active light blinking while in sleep mode?

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My PC normally uses ~70 watts at idle. When I place it into sleep mode, it normally goes down to 0 watts. But sometimes, I come back to find that it is back to 125 watts by itself and the hard drive light is blinking. I turn on the monitor and there is no signal, so the OS is still in sleep mode. If I click a key, the logon screen will show up which is normal from sleep mode wakeup. So why is the PC operating with the hard drive running while in sleep mode. I have Brave and Edge open when I went into sleep mode. After I woke up the OS, task manager shows Brave, PfuSsMon.exe and avp.exe having

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