How to reach the maximum bandwidth on many USB drives?

I have many (~60 at now) external USB drives which I need to occasionally, but regularly, connect to one Linux workstation because I need to run a sanity check program on data saved on them. I don't need to connect all of them at the same time of course, but I would need to achieve the maximum number at maximum speed possible, to reduce the manual time I need to disconnect and connect other drives. I bought a powered 16 port USB 3 hub and I'm using it, but if I connect too many drives at the same time (~ 10) I get occasional input/output errors and read-only forced mounted drives. For this rea

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