With dead drive, I didn't have the luxury on my '09 MBPro.
But, boot from USB attached Time Machine drive restored the newly installed SSD. The system performance improvement is noticeable.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov