A data shuttle and storage device comprises a hard disk drive and a plurality of analog and digital interfaces for providing inputs from various sources in different formats and providing selectively data outputs to various destinations in different formats. All the data is stored through a disk processor which provides bus arbitration, file management and the like under the control of a shuttle borne microprocessor and shuttle borne power supply, so that the shuttle provides media-independent plug-and-play mobility for data from a plurality of sources and provided to a plurality of destinations.