http://www.sturdysafe.com/
 
You seem to get a lot more for your money from these guys.  7 or 8 guage walls, 1/4" or 5/16" doors, 14 gauge inner walls, full length welds, heavy duty insulation, robust locking mechanisms, doors that clamp down as the bolts are tightened, fully covered by warrantee.
 
I'm also considering Liberty Lincoln series, something by Fort Knox (if they'd ever bother sending me the info I requested!), or something from American Security (Amsec).  These better known big names in safes are good, but you end up paying several thousand more for what would appear to be equivalent security/fireresistance to the SturdySafe offerings.  I'm trying to stay in the $1500 - $2500 price range, and that severly limits what you can get from AmSec or Ft Knox.  You can get into a nice size Liberty Lincoln or SturdySafe at the mid-upper end of that price range however.
 
Are their other brands to consider in this price range? Looking for something plus or minus 60"x36"x30" with good security and good fireproofing.  750-1100 lb range (I think).  I may look at some cheaper alternatives, but this is a pretty comfortable cost range and I think I should be able to get a very good midrange safe in this cost range.

Thanks for posting your experiences.  We have not bought a safe yet.  Still doing intermittant research on them.  It's not a high priority for us right now, but probably in the next few months we'll buy one.  We do not have a lot of expensive stuff to store in the safe, nor are we in a high risk environment. I still think it's a smart choice to get a decent safe though.  Not extravagant, but good to very-good.

YES Sturdy Safe is the best, hands down, get the fire liner and largest you can accomidate, you will NOT be dissapointed, HIGH quality, smooth and they supply national guard and other millitary small armorys Go for it!

Quote from burbanman on 11/13/09 at 14:02:18:

 
This video only makes me wonder, who in their right mind has a $1000 safe that is not bolted in, or at least against a wall?  This video is crap, the first thing they do is push safe over backwards, Duh, there would be a wall there!  Then they have to use the totality of their combined body weight.  Sorry this video is just rubbish.

I have not yet decided if I will put my safe (once I buy one!) inside the house, or in the garage.  Inside is much preferable for convenience, but garage has some advantages.  If I go with the garage, I may first built a two sided concrete cinderblock half-room in a corner of the garage.  Once the safe is in place, I'd finish the third wall of that little cubby hole room (leaving the door side open), and add the top with more cinderblocks (cemented all around).  This little cubby-hole would protect the safe against tipping and attacks on the sides with drills, saws and torches.  Not total protection for sure, but unless the thieves were equipped with sledge hammers and willing to break down the outer concrete wall, they would be slowed down considerably.  I'm not talking about a full room, just a little three-sided semi-room barely big enough for the safe to squeeze into side to side and top to bottom.  It would cost very little to up your safes protection level in this manner.  And you could cheapy up the inside fire protection for small things (important papers, cameras, etc.) by putting a small firebox inside the safe, which already has fire protection as part of it's construction.  Or maybe just a fire-resistant fiberglass "bag" to hold papers in.  So you would have double layers of fire protection for the really important stuff.  What you're doing is taking a less expensive safe and bulking it up with some of your own labor.  You would probably spend many thousands more to buy a safe out-of-the-box with the same same protection level as your hybrid safe/cubby-hole.  I would be more willing to spend $2500-$3000 on a lesser safe initially and build this cubby-hole, than to spend $10,000 on the safe in the first place.  You could probably even get by with less than $2500 for the safe itself and still have good total protection in a concrete cubby-hole.
 
If I end up putting the safe inside, it will be bolted down somehow.  And heavier-duty than a garage safe I'd wall in myself.