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Different Braking Applications
For your purposes, whatever they may be, it's important to know what that pad material is made of. For instance brake pads made for street driving are much different from those made for racing.
In the street you might want something quieter that lasts a long time, whereas if you're on a race track you don't care much about how loud your brakes are, you just want them to stop your car as quickly as possible.
If you go into a store like Autozone to buy basic brakes for your car, you are generally given a choice between a few different kinds of brake pad material, including metallic, ceramic and organic material.
Each material performs, costs, and effects the rest of your braking system, in different ways and whether or not one is better than the other depends entirely on your driving style, where you live (climate), and what your driving routine is like (commuting, weekend driving etc).
Of course longevity of how effective your brakes are depends entirely on how you drive, but you can rest assured that when it's time to get new pads the horrific screeching will be your best and most definitive indicator.
