A region-based placement policy that can be used to achieve a better distribution of data in a clustered storage system is disclosed herein. The clustered storage system includes a master module to implement the region-based placement policy for storing one or more copies of a received data across many data nodes of the clustered storage system. When implementing the region-based placement policy, the master module splits the received data into one or more regions, where each region includes a contiguous portion of the received data. Further, for each of the plurality of regions, the master module stores complete copies of the region in a subset of the data nodes.