Wouldn't the page splits be the disadvantage of using too many bigints? ;-)
I can't really see what the advantage would be to using bigints, unless your ID values are getting close to becoming out of range for an int. In which case, there is not much you can do to get around it. Using bigints judiciously should not cause too many problems.
Hope this helps,
Alex
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