Yes, I would think static linking would lead to higher disk usage for binaries.

That analysis doesn't really answer the question re: disk usage and doesn't really quantify how much sharing there is from shared libraries, just how many shared libraries don't get shared... basically "Do your installed programs share dynamic libraries" is answered as "not really" because there s a long tail of libraries that are not widely shared.

Drew's stats shows 80% of binaries link to libc (1.8MB on my system), which by itself could be "a lot" of extra storage. It wouldn't be 80% * 1.8MB per executable if unused symbols weren't linked, but still