II don't want to handle CDs other than ripping them once.
This is what seems to me (unless I've missed something in searching) a missing feature on the transports out there today that I've looked at.
In my home, having a reasonably priced disc player for occasional use would be nice.
Having one that could also play the occasional DVD or blu-ray would also be nice.
Having a bullet proof, high quality, functionally exceptional drive mechanism that could be used for the above, but is primarily a media transport to be connected to OUTPUT data to a computer or music server/streamer/whatever they want to call them this week, used for ripping audio and video discs that is more robust and built for the task than the average disposable computer external drive would be a win for me.
The disc players I see around (like the CI Oppo Dan linked to) often now have USB (or network) inputs to use the onboard functions of the player also as a streamer, but I have yet to see one that also has a well implemented USB output to use the transport as a source device to send data the other way.