http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/e...ility/en422335
That page should be very helpful But it looks like USB 3.0 are not approved 2.0 only
Yeah thunderbolt would be your best option however there's a price difference between thunderbolt FireWire 800
Both of those thunderbolt ports on the MacBook Pro are on their own bus - so you could chain your FireWire drive behind your display or behind your Apollo and should be just fine
When those thunderbolt ports first came out on apple they were showing them daisychained five displays running greater than HD resolution off of one MacBook Pro
An audio drive should be just fine