As far as the A3640, I have been running a 3.1 version from Amiga Technologies for quite some time now without issues. The problem seems to be both space (drive tray right on top of it), and heat, I have a very thin heat sink with tiny cooling fan that just barely clears the drive tray. Running for years like this now. As far as the A3000 SCSI, I love it. Sure it is slow as hell but it works. I did run an Elbox Fast ATA for a bit. Basically to get a decent CD drive going. But my boot times were atrocious with all of this crap. (takes a long time to get CDFS loaded up) So I did go back to a SCSI only system without CD for now.
I like the A3000 a lot. Mine is a little creaky at times but it does run without any hassles. As far as working in the case, it is indeed tight in there. Here is a funny story, I was tinkering with MorphOS 2.0 when it came out using an Efika board. I got tired of using it without a case so stuck it in an old A2500 case I had. That was hilarious because the Efika is so tiny and looked ridiculous sitting all by itself in the monstrous A2500 case
