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Wordpress resizes images. That process uses memory. It doesn't resize mp3s. I'm not trying to ignore anything I just don't think you are running in to a storage problem. I'll stop assuming until we have logs to look at.

Can you try lowering the resolution of your images you are uploading? I really think you are running out of memory as wordpress is attempting to resize the images which are probably large scans or straight from your digicam. It's not a storage issue or a filesize issue as much as it is 1&1 does not allocate very much memory for php to do these processes.

Here is a plugin that can do it for you:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/resize-images-before-upload/
or you can use image editing software before attempting to upload.

That way WordPress will use way less memory during the resize.

If that doesn't work then I'd open a support ticket with 1&1 both mentioning your problem and asking them to enable php logging for you.

Dan

How to access your php error logs is a question for the host, it depends from host to host. If you have "cpanel" you should be able to find them in there.

We ran into this on the OCZ forum. Check with the host for file upload space and allowed file size? I think a lot of them have a 2MB limit unless you ask them to raise it?

Most likely scenario in my mind is you are running out of process memory on the webserver (not physically, but against a php set memory limit) and that the file you are trying to upload is rather large. Maybe a super high res image. The error logs should shine light.

There is no setting in wordpress for a file storage limit that I know of. The first step is to check the php error logs on the webserver right after you do a failed upload.