I am following up from the suggestion below. I managed to have 8 USB disk passthrough to one virtual machine. 4 of them are USB3 and I would imagine that this configuation would work for 8 USB3 disks.
qm set 201 -args "-device nec-usb-xhci,id=xhci1,addr=0x1b,bus=pci.1 \
-device...