Best practice moving from sd-card to ssd raspberry

With hassos, hasbian, or other? From what I’ve been reading, it seems this may not actually work for me as I’m running hassos. I’ve seen there is a usb boot compatible image of hassos here, and that may be the closest method to what I was after thus far:

I’m still unclear on the differences between running raspbian+hassio as outlined in this thread:

…versus just using that usb bootable image instead. Either way, I have to learn how to transfer my configuration to the new system.