1) So what do you do to maintain the health AND performance of your drive?
Answer ... Nothing. I just use it as normal. Though mine only supports the OS and main apps (EG. Browser and some other "serious" apps). Everything else (documents/downloads/pictures/music etc.) is automatically targeted to one of several mechanical HD's, as none of this really needs the available speed of an SSD. I also have a dedicated fast HD (WD black) that contains my STEAM folder and games. As once again, I can't see that games benefit much from being on an SSD (except for free roaming games like Stalker that load levels on the fly as you move about).
2) Is the "degradation" in perfect disk normal?
When you say "but in perfect disk when i analysis the performance goes down a percent or two every week. ". Would I be right in assuming that you are running some sort of speed test app like CDM? If so, then this will cause the firmware in your SSD to throttle the write speeds because it sees you bombarding the drive with countless GB's of data! And each time you do this, you are compounding the issue!
When you say "I have used consolidate free space twice since install to maintain 100% performance in perfect disk is this okay?"....
I'm assuming here you are talking about running some sort of Defrag on your SSD! If so, the the answer to this is DON'T. You are just making the situation worse. Basically NEVER EVER DEFRAG (or full format) an SSD.
What you are doing I suspect is making your own problem worse each time you either run one of the many speed test applications (especially ones that write tons of incompressible data).
If you just leave your SSD alone and stop running the sorts of things mentioned above, then your drive over time will start to recover. Though if you've been doing this for too long and too often, then the only option to restore the drive to full health, is to secure erase the drive and re-install Windows. Or back your SSD up with something like Acronis True Image, Secure Erase your SSD, then recover your backup.
If you must run a speed test app, especially on a SandForce based SSD, then run ATTO. Only something like at best, once a month (or even once every other month).
Probably not what you want to hear. But there are many, many posts along these lines floating around on pretty much all the techie forums (including OCZ's).
Good luck.
PS. Use an app like SSDlife to check that trim supported and enabled and maybe AS SSD to check that your main partition is aligned.
