Based on partition range given to each node, A data which is inserted will move to respective node based on the partition key . Based on what the replicates of the data are moved to other nodes .For Example if i have 6 node cluster with test keyspace Replication factor 3 and i am inserting a record in test.test table which is stored in node 1 based on partition , where does the other two replicas are stored in and what is the factor that decides the replicas to store in the particular node . If it is based on replica placement strategy please let us know how it works in detail, or share a document which deals with this.