Moving to SSD: Clone or rebuild?

[gr4z]

Hi
I have just bought a X25-M SSD drive for my MBP (mid-2010). Is it recommend to clone my existing stock drive to get OSX on the SSD or should I rebuild from scratch and perhaps use Time Machine to recover all my apps and settings?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks

 

[maflynn]

If the SSD is large enough, I'd go the clone route personally.

 

[dr. shdw]

If the SSD is large enough, I'd go the clone route personally.

Negative.

Please do a clean install.

 

[maflynn]

Why?

 

[CrackedButter]

Why not? Just start from scratch with a completely fresh system. I would. I never clone.

 

[maflynn]

The advantages of cloning is that you don't have to worry about trying to migrate stuff that you want to keep, like email messages, while I use iMAP, there are messages I store locally.

Additionally, getting all of my software, reloaded and/or reactivated and reconfigured is a slow and time consuming process. If there's no technical reasons why you shouldn't clone to a SSD.

Cloning < 2 hours, and I'm running
Reinstalling, days worth of work and the risk of missing something is high.

 

[Richard1028]

Why in god's name would you NOT clone a perfectly good drive to another? Just so you can feel better about a clean install?

 

[koobcamuk]

Clone.

It takes far too long for me to reinstall all of the software I have, so I always clone unless something terrible has happened (never happened, so never tried it).

 

[gr4z]

Thanks chaps for the advice. I have only recently done a complete rebuild so will go for the clone. Any suggestions for software and technique? I have ordered a new Optibay drive from eBay to chuck my stock drive into - shall I use that or I have an old USB2 laptop drive enclosure I could use.
Thanks

 

[spinnerlys]

Use CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper to make a 1:1 copy.