I have an A2000, A3000 and A4000. The A2000 and A4000 are both hooked up while the A3000 sits on a shelf. I think that says it all.
Yes, the A4000 has a built in SDFF, but the A4000 has AGA.
Both have Zorro 3.
The A4000 mobo will take a 16MB SIMM, while good luck trying to find a bucket-load of ZIPs for the A3000.
There's bugger all space in the A3000 for a CD ROM drive.
SCSI devices will be a pain to track down on eBay while you can rip lots of cheap IDE devices off old, broken PCs.
If you do add a CPU card (for faster speed and extra RAM) then the chances are that it will have SCSI on it.
Do remember that the A4000 has a single IDE header (2 devices). I terminated mine and put a FastATA4000 into one of the Zorro slots. If you're saving money then a Buddha card would be an option too.