Mongoose increase performance on writes

I have a nodejs app using mongoose to model my data. For 95% of my data (not high write volume) mongoose works great.

I do however have one collection that has a very high write volume. Doing some benchmarking and I am wondering if there is a way to increase performance for this collection.

I have tried using the native driver to insert

Model.collection.insert(doc, {w: 0});

And I don't see much of an increase.

What does this mean. Well it could mean mongoose is running very fast and bypassing it gave no performance boost. I.E. it might be mongodb (connection pool, setup, etc) that might need to be tuned.

My performance is not an issue as of yet, but for this collection I do not need any kind of verification on insert. I would like to just throw the data at mongo and I do not care if there is an error. Any way to do this through mongoose?