If your clutch uses a lightweight (and often expensive) aluminum basket, you should avoid using sintered plates. Sintered plates are steel and will cause impact damage (notching) to the softer aluminum. Ducati recommends replacing the basket when the combination of basket notching and plate tab deformation increases the gap between the clutch basket finger and the clutch plate tab to more than 0.6 mm.
Most vendors won’t even tell you this but Motowheels (to their credit) offer this advice: ”NOTE: The sintered plates are steel and tend to wear out aluminum baskets faster than organic aluminum plates.”
Even a hard coat anodized basket will suffer damage from steel plates. The hard coat surface overlay is only 0.01 to 0.05 mm thick, so although it provides good wear resistance, it can't equal the impact durability of steel.
If you use organic based friction material that is usually bonded to aluminum plates, the plate fingers will suffer the damage instead — or at least equally with the basket. The plates are the wear items so you’d like to have the basket survive more than one clutch pack before needing replacement.