hard question....which are best for you?
how much do you use your brakes, how hard, do they fade on you, do you care abotu dust/noise/cost etc etc.
I dotn really care about dust, but price is pretty important.
I use mintex simply becuase A) i know they dont fade on me B) they are priced very very well c) they dont give off any mroe dust than std pads and they dont make any extra noise. I use std plain discs, from maxtorque.....non of this fancy drilled/grooved/dimpled/slotted etc.
You can spend more on some pagids you wont really use, ferodo but they are no better than mintex, red dot/tarox/ebc/black daimond etc if you want to pay for a fancy name.
Problem most people have is that they use the brakes and rely on them far too much, which is how they get perfectly fine pads to fade, and their fluid isnt usually in teh best state.
im still running std halfords pads i go the car with on me valver......not had them fade and they were fine on the track, infact.....ask loony...we had a locking problem hehe.