Best way to duplicate Tiger Drive on a new HD?

Hi,
My MacPro is still running Tiger on its orginal 250Mb HD. I don't want to get rid of Tiger as it will run my CoolScan 9000's Nikon Scan software. Leopard won't. I have purchased a new 1 TB WD Black drive and was intending to partition it with 400GB going to Tiger and 600GB going to Snow Leopard when it arrives. What is the best way to clone the Tiger drive to dupe it on the new drive? Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper? Or another way?

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Mac OS X data backup FAQ http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
You can use CarbonCopy Cloner @ http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html , or SuperDuper @ http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html , or IBackup @ http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html , or Silverkeeper @ http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/ or the Restore function of Disk Utility included in OS X.
 Cheers, Tom

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