HT4663 final cut pro x import question

So I have a 500gb external hard drive that is open. On another external hard drive I have about 300gb of footage. So far I have imported 80gb onto the open 500gb hard drive and it has filled it up. Am I doing something wrong on the import into Final Cut Pro X?

I am not 100% sure what you mean by where did it come from, so I don't mean to sound dumb but I will explain it best I can.
I went on a road trip across America and filmed around 300GB of footage. It was shot on Sony XDcam I believe. The media is .mts. I broke the footage up into 4 different legs of the trip, and each folder varies in size the first one is 80GB and the second is around 50GB and so on. So I am Importing them by their folders one at a time. So when the first Leg of the trip was done importing I noticed the 500GB drive I got for the footage was already full.
So the way I imported was I clicked on the import button and went through the archive button to find the hard drive with the footage. So I don't believe I used the optimize function when I imported, unless it was the proxy setting that I check marked during the importing process.
Here is a screen shot of what kind of footage I am trying to bring in, I hope it helps.
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