Best way to clean install Lion?

Right, i've posted a lot today, but i'm hoping this should be the last time:
There's two ways of clean installing Lion (that i've seen), which one is better?:
1. Putting the install.dmg onto a sd card/memory stick, holding alt whilst restarting, booting from that memory stick,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irgiVzBwaos
2. Starting in Lion, going into recovery mode and using that disk utility to erase hard drive and then to re-install Lion,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDRCSipDHI
Thank you very much.

It really is difficult to say, the USB Flash drive is slower, but the master boot block for the recovery partition may be damaged. Your mileage may vary depending on the health of each.

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move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
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If you make movies on any iDevices using iMovie for iOS,, then transfer the video footage, the IOS version of iMovie saves the footage as a movie file in IPhoto for IOS and will automatically get transferred to iPhoto for the Mac when you upload the video from your iDevice.
Newer versions of iMovie will work and link those video files found in your iPhoto Library on your Mac, but those links can be lost if you move your iPhoto library and you will not be able to relink that video afterwards as the current versions of iMovie seem to not have a relink option for the video portion of the files (ironically, current versions of iMovie HAVE the ability to re-link the audio files from the video footage, though (The inability to re-link the video files could be a possible bug or oversight in current versions iMovie).
The lost video links show up as "blacked-out" video blocks with no content.
Before moving the iPhoto Library
If you make movies with iMovie using iPad or iPhone video then 'Consolidate' the files before you finish. This will gather (albeit by duplicating) all the relevant files in the project in one place. After consolidating/duplicating all of the audio and video footage to a seperate, independent location,it should be safe to move your iPhoto library.
The potential way to circumvent this issues maybe to try and import iPad and iPhoto video directly into iMovie which would be another solution.
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