Managing temperature of solid state disk devices

A computer program product for managing temperature of a solid state disk (SSD) device, the computer program product disposed upon a computer readable storage medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed by a computer processor of a computer, cause the computer to:

• monitor, using temperature readings from a temperature sensor, the temperature of the SSD device over time, wherein the SSD device has a set of data transfer parameters;
• detect the temperature satisfying a first threshold;
• determine a first data transfer modification which is configured to modify a first data transfer parameter of the set of data transfer parameters;
• modify, in response to the temperature satisfying the first threshold, the first data transfer parameter with the first data transfer modification;
• complete one or more Input/Output (I/O) operations with the SSD device using the modified first data transfer parameter;
• determine a plurality of permissible sizes of data transfer packets which result in a set of resulting temperatures which are within a predetermined range of each other;
• identify a permissible size of data transfer packets of the plurality of permissible sizes of data transfer packets which is capable of increased I/O performance relative to other permissible sizes of data transfer packets of the plurality of permissible sizes of data transfer packets;
• modify, in response to the temperature satisfying the first threshold, the set of data transfer parameters to use the identified permissible size of data transfer packets;
• and
• complete one or more I/O operations with the SSD device using the modified set of data transfer parameters.