Will my mac pro support 10 Optical drives?

I have a mid 2010 Mac Pro that currently has two Optical drives installed. I believe its the Two 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5620 “Westmere” processors. I installed a Samaung 840 Evo for the operating system and I have a 6 TB raid installed with 16gb of ram. I am going to be using it to burn dvds on location for my events. I have a high volume of customers and I really like to get orders out before the weekend is over.
My question is can I daisy chain 10 optical drives to my mac pro? How do I gauge how much it can handle?
And if you can give me a comparrison between that and the new mac pro that would be great. I know that the new model is going to be a lot faster and if my 2010 model can't support 10 drives but the new one can then it will be time to make a change!
Thanks for your time

So there are duplicators that have multiple targets? I have a 10 set duplicator already so when I have clients purchase as groups I can duplicate but most of our orders are specific to just one customer. So I have the duplication.
My previous setup was 4-5 macbook pros all networked to a shared drive and I burned that way but our system is changing and we are putting the Mac Pro into play and so it would be easier just to have a set of drives all stacked in my road case instead of pulling the macbooks from other stations and then having to pack them up and etc. So if each drive could burn a differenct disc that would be great.
I use toast and I read somewhere that you can just duplicate it and then from there I would label all of the drives to match the toast duplicate it was running from.

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