I had the opposite experience with mine; My BeagleBone Black kept becoming soft-bricked while trying to run Debian (unable to boot, forcing me to reinstall the

I had the opposite experience with mine; My BeagleBone Black kept becoming soft-bricked while trying to run Debian (unable to boot, forcing me to reinstall the OS/loader or restore a backup), and I eventually found out it was because upstream Debian updates were incompatible with the board's funny hardware. One needs (or at least needed) to take special care not to update one's kernel. Switched to a RPi2 after that headache. The BBB has been collecting dust ever since.