Migrate data to new dual drive setup

I am adding a second hard drive to my Mac (Mavericks) but am not sure of the best way to go about moving the data across. The new drive is a SSD and the old one is a HDD so I want to move the OS and most other things (excluding music, photos, movies) to the new drive. Is the best way to do this to just restore from a Time Machine backup? Can I somehow restore a TM backup to an empty drive or do I first have to install Mavericks on the new SSD? I was thinking of booting into the Recovery partition of my HDD and using the "Restore from a TM backup" feature on there but can that restore it to the SSD or does that only apply to the HDD (of which the recovery partition is a member of)?
On that recovery partition there is also an "Install a copy of Mavericks" option. If I use that to install Mavericks on the SSD, is that in any way different to downloading the installer from the app store and using that? I think I remember something about the old versions of OSX installing slightly differently depending on how it was done, ie pre-installed vs retail DVD vs included install DVD...
Any suggestions?

You can buy an enclosure and put the old hard drive in it. Then, you can start up the computer from this hard drive and use Disk Utility's Restore feature to restore the hard drive content onto your new one > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU7.html
You may have to format the new hard drive first. You can do it in Disk Utility > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html Remember to format your new hard drive in "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and with the GUID partition table

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>> Is there a way to start with a completely new/clean ZEN 6.5 Inventory
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