To Clone or not to Clone

Hi
I am going to upgrade my original hard drive in my Mac Book Pro, with a Western Digital Scorpio Black 7200 rpm, and have a question.
Which is the best way to do this? Is it best to clone the old drive onto the new one or best to format the new drive using the Installer Disks?
Thanks,
Anneita

Here's what I like to do:
1. Hook up the new drive using an enclosure or cable like this one. I use a FireWire enclosure that I have (like this one) because it's fast for these large transfers. When you're transferring hundreds of GB, it takes forever.
2. Mount it in Apple Disk Utility and format it.
3. Clone the existing drive to the new one.
4. Install the new drive and boot from it.
I like this way because if something goes wrong with the new drive, your old drive is a bootable backup. Once the new drive is tested, then you can do things like upgrade the system, knowing that if something goes horribly wrong with either the hardware upgrade or the system upgrade, you can always just put the old "known good" drive back in and keep going while you get the new one replaced.
If you want a clean system, instead you can format the drive and install OS X from the DVD and run Migration Assistant. But this takes longer because you have to go through an install and run all the OS X updates first. With the clone, there is one step: Clone it.

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