Leaving a power cable unplugged.

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I recently installed and cloned-to a new drive for a friend whose SMART data wasn't looking too good on his old drive.

I realized that I removed the data cable, but I left the SATA power cable unplugged but almost touching the old drive's SATA power connector.

Could this be an issue?
 
Very unlikely. The SATA connectors are designed to be hot-plugged, and a powered drive without a data connection just won't do anything.
 
But say it gets jiggled in on an angle, halfway. There's no possibility of a short?
 
The connector is designed such that it would be quite difficult, and probably impossible on undamaged connectors, to create a short. And even if you did, if a short on the power connector was going to damage anything, it'd be your PSU.

Has the drive stopped working or something?
 
No everything was working fine when I left. I'm just concerned about a possible time-bomb effect with leaving the cable right there.
 
Something would have to fall into the connector to cause a problem. The power connectors are keyed so you cannot do any damage.
 
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