I've been a big fan of Centric Posi Quiet line of pads ever since I did the Centric Power Stop slotted rotor swap and the kit came with them. The kit came with Posi Quiet semi-metallic's. They were super quiet and had very very very little dust, and stopped very well. That's something the Hawk HPS pads I was running before didn't provide me. They were terrible for noise and dust.
After an unfortunate bearing failure on a road trip which destroyed a rotor and pad, we had a little 150mi tow home involved and I converted my stock sized slotted rotors for the upsized 12" '03+ 4x4 rotors. Went with Centric Premium stock rotors and Centric Posi Quiet ceramics.
During the Explorer rear brake swap, I used Centric Posi Quiet ceramic pads and Centric Posi Quiet semi-met parking brake shoes.