NEITHER.
Rotary / dial locks are a joke, in most cases easily manually decoded until you get up into safes that get bolted to the floor in concrete.
True, but from the few school sessions we had, about breaking locks (for comsec reasons), the time it takes someone, to crack manual dials, most thieves won't have, unless they break into a home and TAKE the safe with them..
Thus I like the good old key lock. Sure they can be picked, but in the price range most normal people can have all of the above have issues. Of them the key lock is usually the most secure.
I wonder, if they've ever made a key lock that can't be picked??
Overall though I compare it to the locks on a car. It's only really there to keep the honest people out.
True, the determined will always get in, even if they just have to break it to get in it..
While it's true that there's no way to build a lock or home security device that is impossible to break into, there's still a point when most criminals will decide that it's not worth bothering with. Especially when for every person who does keep their guns and other assorted valuables locked up in a safe there's a few dozen who don't.
We had a gal when i was stationed in Bahrain, who had her home stateside broken into. HER two safes (One for her coins, one for her important documents), had a manual dial safe covering it up, then she had the electronic lock to get in. Cops said the criminals cut into the first lock cover, but by the time they saw the second, the just left her home with what loot they stole already. Compared to two other homes they broke into that they were able to get OODLES of stuff, because the owners had NOT ONE thing under lock and key...
YES.
that is, "Yes to both please."
Okay, here's my perspective; a safe is like locking your car-it's not going to stop a dedicated professional, but the more difficult you make it, the fewer opportunists can make off with your valuables.
Would you care for a side of fries with that...
If you're bolting it down, and you can, then both to the wall, and to the floor is preferable to either/or. mount in a corner and you can be bolted securely on THREE sides (wall, wall, floor).
Never thought of bolting it to TWO walls (in a corner) AND the floor...