New hard drive, Mavericks clean install or use SuperDuper

I am replacing hard drive in MacBook Pro. I have a bootable Mavericks installer on thumb drive and an external hard drive with a SuperDuper clone of my current MBP HD. Is there any advantage to a clean install (from the thumb drive and then using SuperDuper) over just using SuperDuper to add the backup to a newly formatted HD?
TIA

PHIemspilot wrote:
Is there any advantage to a clean install (from the thumb drive and then using SuperDuper) over just using SuperDuper to add the backup to a newly formatted HD?
TIA
With a clean install, you'll get the Recovery HD. SuperDuper only clones the Macintosh HD and NOT the Recovery HD.
I believe you can use your SuperDuper clone during the Setup phase so it migrates your user accounts, data and apps.

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