Best way to set up a new ssd boot up disk

Hello
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro running Snow Leopard, and am hoping to breathe some new life into it with some additional ram and an SSD for just the OS, Applications, Library and System folders.
I'm looking for advice on the best way to go about setting up the new boot up disk. I've read that it might be best to do a fresh install of the OS onto the SSD, so at the moment I'm in two minds about whether to do just that or to clone the existing disk and then delete the data I don't want on there.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Alistair

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