The left side--panel can be removed very easily by undoing a pair of thumb-screws and then just sliding the panel towards the rear of the case and finally lifting straight up to remove it.  Once removed you can see that this case is not set up like most of the cases we have used in the past.  For one thing the power supply is positioned at the very lowest point possible on the case and separated by a divider that will keep the warm air trapped in the lower portion of the case.

In the event that you should decide to go the water cooling route Antec has taken one step to make that process far simpler.  They have added two opening for the tubing to enter and exit the case.  These openings are carefully covered with rubber grommets to prevent the tubing from being cut on the opening.

Some may be disappointed that the P-182 does require tools to install the video cards, NIC cards or networks cards along with the fact that the case not having a removable motherboard tray.

 

Using the attached metal ring I have pulled the drive cage part of the was out so that you could see that plastic guides that are used to keep the drive bays aligned when pushing them in or taking them out.  The addition of the metal pull loop is a handy feature for drawing the drive bays out were it is handy to work on them at.

If you look closely at the inside of the drive cage you can see every place where a hard drive is mounted to the drive bay and pair of silicon vibration dampeners are located in bolt holes, this will greatly reduce the sound any hard drive makes during spin-up or spin-down.  This drive bay will hold a total of four 3.5" hard drives.

Directly above the 3.5" drive bay you will find another try bay that can be used for one additional 3.5" hard drive as well as a floppy drive, card reader or other accessory that might fit in a normal floppy size opening.  As you can each item will be mounted on a removable drive cartridge that can be pulled out the rear of the drive bay.

The last thing we are going to look at before go is the compartment divider that is used to allow the cabling from your power supply to make its way to your motherboard and still keep a relatively tight fit around the cables thereby preventing a great deal of warm air to rise into the area where the motherboard is resting.