Allan Tépper
Allan Tépper has been working with professional video since the early eighties, since he first learned to edit video using the open-reel 1/2” EIAJ-1 format with a Sony VO-3650 editing deck in his high school in Connecticut. Since 1994, Tépper has been consulting both end-users and manufacturers via his Florida company. Via TecnoTur, Tépper has been giving video technology seminars in several South Florida’s universities and training centers, and in a half dozen Latin American countries, in their native language. Tépper has been a frequent radio/TV guest on several South Florida Latino stations, and on a couple of Venezuelan stations too. As a certified ATA (American Translators Association) translator, Tépper has also translated and localized dozens of advertisements, catalogs, software, and technical manuals for the Spanish and Latin American markets. Tépper’s most recent translation was the user interface for a Hong Kong company which makes a calling card application (BerryDialer) for Blackberry users.
Over the past 17 years, Tépper’s articles have been published in more than a dozen magazines, newspapers, and electronic media in Latin America, mainly in Producción & Distribución and TTV. In 1998 Tépper founded SOPRÉPROC, the Sociedad para la preservación y progreso del castellano or Society for the Preservation and Evolution of the Castilian language (the world’s most widely used Spanish language). From 2000-2002, Tépper was also the editor of TTV, of the Izarra Group. From the end of 2006 until September 2007, Tépper was the co-director of the South Florida Final Cut Pro User Group. Currently, Tépper is writing for ProVideo Coalition and editing more episodes of his TecnoTur audio podcast, which includes international telephone interviews of industry professionals in Spain and Latin America. Subscribe free to TecnoTur in iTunes or at TecnoTur.us
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
Endorsed by Apple for FCP; 4TB RAID5 for US$799; Look ma, no controller card!
I have been aware of Promise Technology for decades. I installed their IDE cards way back in the Amiga (Commodore) days; I configured a Promise NAS (Network Attached Storage) connected with Gigabit Ethernet for a local Miami client in 2008; and Apple recently replaced their XserveRAID line with Promise’s VTrak E-Class Fibre Channel RAIDs for SAN (Storage Area Network) applications, which start at US$7,499. However, it was only recently that I became aware of Promise’s powerful yet inexpensive SmartStor DS4600 RAID for DAS (Direct Area Storage). I was intrigued to see Apple’s endorsement for its use with FCP, and I was impressed with the price performance, considering that an Apple-certified 4TB (gross, 4x1TB) RAID5 configuration costs US$799 with inboard controller and free shipping. (A comparable Fusion D400QR5 model from Sonnet costs US$1,595.) Learn more about eSATA, RAID5, the SmartStor DS4600 and its “partnership” with Apple in this article.
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